Is a Chief Research Scientist and founding Director of the Makerere University Lung Institute (MLI). He is also a Senior Lecturer (Pulmonary Medicine) in the Department of Medicine, Makerere University. Bruce formally trained in Internal Medicine at Makerere University and completed specialty registrar training in Pulmonary Medicine at Mulago National Referral Hospital, he then proceeded to complete an additional year of clinical and research training in the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Yale University, USA. Bruce has a Masters in clinical research fellowship of the University of Amsterdam offered at the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health in Rwanda. He recently obtained his PhD in Medicine from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His main interests are in clinical and epidemiological research in the areas of obstructive lung diseases and their determinants as well as infectious lung illnesses. He has over 10 years’ experience of initiating and coordinating programmatic, training and research health projects. He is actively involved in COVID-19 research and has been on the frontline since the pandemic started and is the brains behind the COVID-19 research group at MLI that has implemented several COVID-19 trials.